Intimacy and Separateness in Psychoanalysis

Gabbard, MD, author of Love and Hate in the Analytic Setting.. I will return to this book again and again."-Glen O. "Warren Poland writes of analysis as contact between separate people, a contact that leads to change in both. In his writing he achieves a similar contact. He describes the psychoanalytic experience with such clarity and emotional depth that his words touch the reader as words in an analysis touch the other. This book is for all analysts, to be returned to again and again, both for the knowledge it contains and for the pleasure provided by his beautiful and accurate description of what actually takes place during psychoanalysis."-<

Warren S. Poland M.D. has practiced clinical psychoanalysis for over half a century, his observations and reflections, including in his early book Melting theDarkness: The Dyad and Principles of Clinical Technique, honored by a Sigourney Award in 2009. In personal essays, in co

Clinical illustrations of moments that matter but are usually omitted from public presentation are set alongside examples of reading powerful fiction to show how analyst and author both incite fresh openness in a person’s mind. Psychoanalyst or patient, writer or reader, each one living one’s own life – all can find new understandings in this work.. In Intimacy and Separatenessin Psychoanalysis, Warren Poland casts a freshly erudite eye on this paradox, resisting individual or intersubjective bias and avoiding the parochia